 | Sexual Types: Embodiment, Agency, and Dramatic Character from Shakespeare to Shirley Subjects: English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan 1500–1600 -- History and criticism; English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism; Sex in literature; Characters and characteristics in literature; Typology (Psychology) in literature; Stereotypes (S; Sexual Types focuses on six figures from the early modern stage--the sodomite, the tribade, the narcissistic courtier, the citizen wife, the bawd, and the court favorite--that reveal in particularly compelling ways, how sexual transgressions were understood to intersect with social, gender, economic, and political transgressions. Mario DiGangi is Professor of English at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of The Homoerotics of Early Modern Drama. |
